Philanthropy

A groundbreaking bond transaction between Fannie Mae and the California Housing Finance Agency (CHFA) has laid the groundwork for the successful preservation of more than 23,300 units of affordable rental housing units in 279 separate locations throughout California that cou...

More than a dozen local agencies, and community organizations joined the City of Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb Counties and Freddie Mac to launch a metro-wide "Don't Borrow Trouble" campaign to help more local families learn about and protect themselves from predatory lenders. ...

Avant! Foundation Chairman Gerry Hsu will announce in San Jose tomorrow the creation of a $1 million gift to fund innovative college scholarships for economically disadvantaged Bay Area high school students who have demonstrated great academic promise but have not achieved o...

SBC Communications has provided 27 works by historical women artists to The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future, in its continuing efforts to support the nation's first museum dedicated solely to women and their contributions to society.

As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of Microsoft Corp., president and CEO Steve Ballmer will today announce a $25 million commitment of cash and software to fund the Microsoft & NPower National Partnership. The partnership is a national rollout of NPower, a nonpr...

Avant! Corporation today announced the grant of software licenses of Avant!'s leading-edge integrated circuit design tools to colleges and universities worldwide. Prestigious institutions that received these multi-million dollar donations include: Boston University, Duke Uni...

ISLANDIA, N.Y. - Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE:CA) today announced it has pledged $500,000 to the American Red Cross in support of the organization's massive relief effort to help the millions of people affected by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi,...

Verizon will contribute $242,000 to 32 Northwest area schools and organizations serving the needs of adults, children and families as part of International Literacy Day tomorrow.

"Education, economic development and crime are key issues ...

Thanks to more than 600 GE Lighting
employee volunteers, the number of inner-city youngsters who will next summer
be able to attend Camp Mueller -- a 270-acre camp in Peninsula, Ohio -- will
more than quadruple.
In a highly-planned-and-prepared on...

For its longstanding commitment to the arts in the communities it serves, Bank of America will be recognized with the Founders Award as the Business Committee for the Arts, Inc. (BCA) and FORBES Magazine present the 2000 Business in the Arts Awards at The Art Institute of Ch...